New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. McCarthy's masterwork, front-runner for best American novel from the 1980s. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Gyula Visnyei | with best wishes | Cormac McCarthy." Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red. With the original dust jacket. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket. Book clean, with no remainder mark. Jacket with bright, vibrant colors and only the slightest wear to the tips of the corners.

This copy inscribed by McCarthy for Visnyei, more commonly known as Juli Veee, legendary Hungarian-born soccer player who lived and played in the United States. His greatest success was in the US Indoor Soccer League, where he led his teams to six championships, and was voted the league MVP 3 times.

McCarthy’s masterful meditation on brutality, death, and the American West. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Blood Meridian follows the adventures of “The Kid,” who joins the violent Glanton Gang, and his relationship with the imposing and demonic figure of Judge Holden. Published in 1985, the novel was McCarthy’s fifth book, but the first to take place in the American Southwest. Writer David Foster Wallace called it "[p]robably the most horrifying book of this century, at least [in] fiction" and critic Harold Bloom referred to Blood Meridian as "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.” It appears on Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest English novels from 1923-2005.

“Any page of his work reveals his originality, a passionate voice given equally to ugliness and lyricism” (contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Item #7598)